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Listen!

June 8, 2020 By Nancy Casey

Drawing is writing. When you draw, your thoughts move with the tip of the pen as the ink flows onto the page.

Drawing uses a different part of your mind than talking does. Drawing without talking can improve your ability to listen. Try it!

Set up your page by marking off a very small space for writing.  Just enough room for a sentence or two. Then fill the rest of the page with drawing.

You can draw what’s in front of you or copy something. You can draw from memory or imagination. You can doodle. You can color the page one solid color. You can do all these things on different parts of the page.

While you draw, listen. To anything you choose: music, the news, another person, an audiobook, or ambient sounds. Even if the sounds around you “disappear,” you are still hearing the sound of your own mind.

When the drawing space is completely full, write something in the writing space. Don’t plan it. Put down whatever pops into your mind.

Give your work a title and write the date on it.

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News and Events

Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


 

Writing classes and workshops

I had been looking forward to the 2020 summer season of in-person  Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Community Center.  Alas.

 

Congratulations to last summer’s students who earned certificates in Fiction Writing, Project Management and Grant Writing.

 

Applause and thanks to those who dropped by the classes just for fun.

 

If you are in recovery and interesting in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

A program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho. Free and open to all. Somehow? Again? At a later date?

 

We are all looking forward to the time when it will be possible to resume these lively book discussions.

 

I’ve served as a scholar for this program for I-don’t-know-how-many years. I have found every book, every library, every group of people to be interesting and stimulating. Every discussion brings new ideas and surprises.

 

I’m confident that this program will evolve so that it can continue to bring Idahoans together through books. We just don’t know how or when that will happen.  Yet.

 

 


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